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Definition: Tow Truck |
Tow TruckNoun1. A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Tow TruckSynonyms: tow car (n), wrecker (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tow Truck |
| Specialty definitions using "tow truck": AEROSPACE PHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNICIAN, AIRPORT UTILITY WORKER ♦ RECEIVER-DISPATCHER ♦ service aide. (references) |
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Screenplays | I was hoping to get one that wasn't attached to a tow truck. (The Naked Truth; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tow truck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سيارة السحب للتصليح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | аварийна кола. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépanneuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | autómentő (breakdown truck, wrecker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, lesson, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, resonance, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, retouch, rhetoric, sticker, wrestling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レッカー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owtay ucktray reboque (caravan, dragline, haulage, hauling, tow, towage, towing, trailer, tug). (various references) reboque (towing). (various references) аварийная машина. (various references) bärgningsbil (breakdown van, wrecker, wrecking car). (various references) kurtarma aracı (breakdown truck, breakdown van, crash truck, towing truck), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-o-r-t-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: cutwork. | |
-3 letters: court, trock, trout, truck, tutor. | |
-4 letters: cork, crow, curt, rock, rout, ruck, torc, tort, tour, tout, trot, trow, tuck, turk, work, wort. | |
-5 letters: cor, cot, cow, cur, cut, kor, orc, ort, our, out, roc, rot, row, rut, tor, tot, tow, tut, two, wok, wot. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 77 54 72 75 63 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110111 00100000 01010100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o w   T r u c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0077 0054 0072 0075 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818925484876977 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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